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A properly made gun-belt should have a curve in it. It might be just exaggerating that curve. I have a/some Tandy Gun Leather pattern(s) which have the belts on it/them. And they are cut on the curve Do you want copies of the patterns?

Two things arrived in the post today 1. From Temu this hole punch sharpener. The outside cone to sharpen the inside edge of punches and the tool has a hollow part to help sharpen the outside edge. Comes in a protective plastic box. This should help me keep my punches sharp 2. From texasleathertools a handled stamp. He took one of my Viking eagles and made a stamp. And is it tiny! Only 12mm (1/2 inch) across the base. Made in machined brass with a steel handle. First class workmanship. It came with its own plastic protective case. Now I need to find a project I can use it on I put some paint on the design so you could see it clearly - remember this only 12mm across the base

Try, very, very carefully, dabbing and rubbing the spot with cellulose thinners

My local Turkish barber has been arrested for drug dealing I've been a customer of his for over 12 years and never knew he was a barber

That is some very nice tooling work there That circle design (a seeder?) both on the borders and on the lower part of the holster ties it all together nicely

The chinese one is perhaps stainless steel. Magnets aren't any use on s/s

I'd like to see more photos, Close-ups too ? Well done for stepping out of your comfort zone. It looks very nice Where did you get the inert ammo?

As Cledus said to the Bandit; 'That'll work too'

Why not take this opportunity to replace the button with short straps and buckle arrangement which can be pulled up tight but also allow some change in the wearer's girth?

I've not had serious work place accidents. The worst I've had was dropping a 5lb club hammer on me foot. It missed the steel toe cap of the boot and got the foot where it was unprotected I've done plenty of things that should have put me in hospital or the morgue. Like lighting up a ceegar in a paint spraying area just after the painter chap had done a lot of cellulose paint spraying. That only blew the door and a window open. Or my mechs and I used to race the garage heaters down the drive. The space heater worked like a jet engine in reverse; a small air intake pulled air thru to a sparking plug and a mixture of paraffin oil, and hot burning gasses out the rear end. We found we could turn the process around and have a jet engine. Strapped to a mech under-car dolly it could shift. So we raced them. They needed electricity for the sparking plugs so we fitted the same length of cable to each. Fired them up and sent out of the workshop and down the drive way. Of course the cable pulled out but the rockets would go on further. The record was 175 feet. It would have been further but a small ruined cottage got in the way. Had several police visits about 'mysterious' objects flying about Got all me fingers and toes, but the hearing ain't so good. 35 years of riding noisy motorcycles and 30 years of attending noisy motor sports has ruined it. I tried ear plug a couple of times but it seriously affected my sense of balance and I nearly crashed with them in. Never used them after that

Garden plant sprayers are cheap. Available in plastic or glass. Get a cheapo plastic one to try out. I have 5 or 6 glass ones, cost £1.50 per about $1.75 each, you can probably get them cheaper. I opted for the glass as its easier to clean after the dyeing. Dye doesn't stain glass like it does plastic They're easy to clean. I put the spray head on a spare bottle (it actually doesn't need to fit ) and spray alcohol thru it until it sprays clean. A quick wash then in soapy water finishes the job. If you can find a lid that fits the spray bottle you can keep the dye in it for future use

ohh that happened to moi too, but it was huge amplifier. I got thrown 30ft. Wud have been more but the wall I hit stopped me! I'm keeping my sewing machines caged! Dangerous beasties that they are

A larger spray, ie giving a larger spray, for misting water onto plants, is better. The smaller bottles give a very fine spray and you are for-ever spraying cos it doesn't give out much. If you're spraying and don't want the spray on a certain part use a piece of cardboard to mask it

Not as simple a construction as I thought Well done

@Michelle M First option; list them on here in the 'For Sale' section I guess a lot of ppl on here might want to buy them btw, put your location in your profile. This is an international forum with members all over the world

@Mulesaw thanks for the PDF. I was looking for mine but I think I have a paper set of patterns

Tandy does/did a pattern set for Chaps I'm sure the Bat-wing pattern in that set could be adapted to your needs

yup, I like them, A bit of class

Being a lazy sod I'd use an electric planer

T'other night my #1 favourite dottir was telling me about a D&D game she is leading. The players play remotely by computer link-up The game was so seriously involved it made 4 dimensional chess seem like an infants game

They look spot-on there I've seen far worser being sold as 'artisan' made. And they weren't cheap The house I used to live on was built over a clay base. Clay was only 18 inches below the soil. The whole area used to be known for high quality clay pots and bricks. Still is for the bricks, major exporter of

If you can, take it to a timberyard and get them to put it through their planer-thicknesser to take off a few millimeters

I do make some leather goods for D&D players Lets confine it to that?

I do believe the ancients never used chicken fat of grease on their leather They had high quality tallow, goose grease, olive oil, nut oils to choose from The smell of rancid chicken is too powerful for even their noses A recent BBC news story (two days ago) that police closed an area of a park whilst forensics checked out a smell. Social Media reported a body had been found. Turned out to be a bag of chicken wings which had been dumped! Beeswax candles were very uncommon. In the 7th C (600s) a monk wrote to the pope seeking permission to import bees from north France into Ireland (Hibernia) as there were no bees there so he could not make candles In the 8th to 11th centuries Viking traders imported bees into Hibernia so they could make meade and sell the wax. They recorded that there were no bee hives in Hibernia

Refined tallow candles were the usual. Even refined whale oil. Beeswax candles were for the clergy only, and from the 1st Century. Candle makers had their own way of refining tallow and the best candle makers were sought out for the purity of their candles. A slight smell of cooking beef.